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The Perth Hills and Wheatbelt Band recently completed a 35 day tour of the European battlefields from both World Wars. The band performed 45 times in 35 days in 6 different countries.
At the Battle of Fromelles there were not enough helmets for all of the troops, so many Australians charged the German trenches wearing a Slouch Hat.
PHAWB honours those who fell at Fromelles at the official ceremony for the 99th Anniversary with A BROWN SLOUCH HAT on July 19th 2015.
Perth Hills and Wheatbelt Band plays the Battle of Britain March . Recorded live in London as part of its Australians at War 2015 tour.
PHAWB salutes the airmen who flew on Operation Jericho. The band played outside the Amiens Jail as part of their 2015 tour in honour of those who took part and the French civilians who died in the aftermath.
Perth Hills and Wheatbelt Band plays this iconic Aussie anthem as part of their Australians at War tour of Europe in July 2015. They performed on the battlefields of the Western Front as well as Gallipoli and significant World War Two sites.
The Perth Hills and Wheatbelt Band was honoured to have Ft Sgt Cliff Byfield speak at our last concert about his time in Bomber Command in 1944. In this video Cliff is accompanied by a musical soundtrack from the band's recent D Day Commemorative Concet
In April 2014 the band had the honour of performing at the centenary of Wesfarmers, This video shows the band's versatility with swing classics, rock classics, march classics and orchestral classics.
This video is a sample of the great sounds from that event.
As part of their GOLD AWARD winning performance at the 2013
Australian International Music Festival PHAWB plays the famous
Dambusters Theme as a hymn.
We invited the Pink Panther to play with us is Sydney and Canberra but he was badly behaved and kept running away to chat to the audience.
PHAWB plays the Australian National Anthem at the changing of the Federation Guard and closing ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. This comes one week after the band's Gold Award winning performance at the Australian International Music Festival in Sydney.
PHAWB plays Karl King's famous march in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu.
The Perth Hills and Wheatbelt Band pays tribute to the Australians from World War One and Two by playing the Last Post at various battlefields throughout Europe. The bugle was recorded live at the Australian Museum BULLECOURT 1917 in France in July 2015 on a bugle supplied by RSL WA.
A tribute to the British Airborne paras who fought in Op Market Garden in Arnhem in Sept 1944
In particular the Australians who fought with the British Army ... Lest We Forget
PHAWB salutes the Dambusters squadron with Abide with Me/Last Post recorded at RAF Scampton.
The Dambusters March (complete) was played at the D Day 70 years on concert and will be played in Europe at the dams in Germany and the air base that they left from in July 2015.
Step back in time with PHAWB as they transform the ballroom of the El Caballo Resort back to the swinging 1940s with the sounds of Glenn Miller, Sy Oliver and Duke Ellington
An Outstanding performance of Brian Hogg's The New ANZACs from the Gold Award winning Perth Hills and Wheatbelt Band recorded live in Sydney 2013. The New ANZACS tells the story of the Gallipoli landings. A bugle calls the men to the boats, The pulse of the men rowing to the Turkish shoreline. The landing and subsequent shooting. A truce to bury the dead and the singing of a hymn & the triumphant success of the Australian withdrawal.
One of the highlights of our Hawaii tour was a performance at
Pearl Harbor.
This recording is the perfect soundtrack for this collection of memories from Sydney's beautiful harbour
Just a Closer Walk with Thee recorded at Farrington HS in Honolulu.. Hawaii. This video was posted by Farrington HS
This is a tribute to those who died on Dec 7th 1941in Pearl Harbour in Hawaii and was played by the band at the Pacific Basin Music International Festival in Honolulu in 2012.
Perth Hills and Wheatbelt Band were accepted into the Pacific Basin Music Festival in Hawaii in March 2012. PHAWB takes musicians from the south west of Western Australia and combines them into a band that participates
in festivals and competitions all around the world as well as performing in smaller groups in Perth and West Australian regional towns.
This video is a selection of the Hawaii adjudicated repertoire.
Before leaving for Hawaii for the Pacific Rim Music Festival with
special guests The Filth led by the West Australian Police
Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan.
PHAWB plays a medley of the songs it will play on its upcoming Hawaiian tour. Recorded in Midland WA
The Perth Hills and Wheatbelt Band on tour in China for the 2010 World Expo played 9 concerts in 2 cities including on the World Expo Stage where this recording was made. The vision showcases our travels within these two great cities.
On July 3rd 2010 the band left for Shanghai after just one day together. Performing under the name of NORTHAM AREA YOUTH BAND the band performed 6 times in China sharing the stage with ensembles from the most famous universities in the world. - (Harvard, Eton, Oxford, Cambridge and Yale).
This video is a snapshot of that tour and demonstrates the versatility of these young musicians.and was recorded live on the World Expo stage in Shanghai, China on July 8th 2010.
As part of their tour of China, the band, (under the name of Northam Area Youth Band), performed on the stage at the World Expo in Shanghai twice on the same day.
This is a live recording from the World Expo stage. The footage is a recollection of Shanghai by night as captured by various band members.
The song is Shake Rattle and Roll
This recording of MacArthur Park was posted on You Tube by Farrington HS where we had a very enjoyable evening and combined concert
Pirates
of the Caribbean recorded at the World Expo Shanghai 2010 by the Perth
Hills and Wheat Band traveling as the Northam Area Youth Band. The band
consists of students from 8 different schools.
In five years the Kalamunda SHS concert band has received 3 OUTSTANDING and 2 EXCELLENT awards at the WA Schools band festival. Kalamunda is in the heart of the Perth Hills and home base for PHAWB Administration. This performance features some outstanding flute playing and wonderfully balanced controlled ensemble work. Listen out for the awesome crescendo at bar 22
In 2007 a band was formed from 4 primary schools and 2 high schools to
travel to Sydney to the 19th International Music festival in the Sydney
Opera House in 2008.
The youngest member of the band was 11 years old
and 65% of the band was in Primary School at the time. The band
received a SILVER AWARD.
Brain West's HORNPIPE is a brisk energetic piece that requires accurate light articulation from the woodwinds and some noble dark chords from the brass in the slow section.
Listen out for the stunning Piccolo and flute playing in the reflective section.
PHAWB plays this great Glenn Miller Classic with a full concert band as part of its performance at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in 2012